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Goods
are physical (or tangible) and usually transportable offerings. Examples range from clothes to huge industrial machines.
Services
are offerings that are intangible and usually created at the same time as they are provided. Examples include a haircut, banking, legal advice, medical treatment, and transportation.
Information
Is an offering or structured sets of data and other material, such as magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
Experiences
Offerings constructed of multiple goods and services organized to create and provide a particular "feel." Examples include a Disneyland "experience" or a vacation cruise "experience."
Events
Offerings of specific time-based occurrences, such as a concert or a graduation ceremony, often constructed of a combination of services and goods.
Places
Offerings of physical locations or the location's facilities and amenities. Examples include demonstrating what a great place Lake Como is for a vacation, the advantages of locating your firm in Ireland, or shooting your movie in Pittsburgh.
Properties
The offerings of the rights of ownership to real (physical, but unmovable) or intellectual (creative) property. Examples include houses (real property) and patents (intellectual property).
Persons
The offerings of the rights to the time and activities of an individual, such as may be done by an agent representing a celebrity.
Organizations
Offerings of the benefits of joining a specific firm, association, or institution. Best example here is how universities and clubs present themselves to you as a great place for students.
Ideas
The offerings of concepts, opinions, or principles. Examples include such things as academic freedom or libertarianism.
Supply Channels
are an entire set of links that trace from raw material suppliers to end-users (or any part of the overall chain of links), where the end user is the actual user of the product.
Marketing channels
refer to the shorter set of links between potential sellers and buyers at any point in the entire supply chain.
Communication channels
provide information that could range from advertising to inquiries about products via the internet.
Distribution channels
display and deliver product
Selling channels
effect transactions. In the Burger King example above, selling channels may include regular walk-up, drive-through, etc.
Relationship marketing orientation
This orientation concerns creating, communicating, and delivering more value to our target customer over the long haul than could be obtained from a rival.
Customer relationship marketing (CRM)
The actual set of activities to accomplish this end.
Marketing
The process of planning and executing conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.
Functions of marketing
conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution.
Integrated goal of these functions
The creation of exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals - although it isn't really obvious in this definition whether these exchanges satisfy the seller, the buyer, or both.
Form utility
The product has the attributes to satisfy the need.
Place Utility
The product is available in the place desired.
Time utility
The product is available at the time desired.
Possession utility
The product transaction is as desired
Product line
refers to a group of similar goods or services.
Product extension
Usually causes an increase in the number of products the firm sells. Example: there was only regular Coca-Cola, then a diet version, then Caffeine-Free Coke, then Caffeine-Free Diet Coke.
Product Refinement
Usually involves improvement in the product. Product refinement changes the product but does not increase the number of products the firm markets. Example: improving the taste of a food product or increasing the speed of a PC)
Brand extension
Occurs when the firm applies an existing brand identifier to a new product in a new product line.
Product mix
Refers to the set of all products that the firm offers for sale within a given industry. Product mix has two dimensions: "Width" - the number of product lines "Depth" - the number of products within each line
Marketing mix
Refers to the overall set of decisions the firm uses to pursue its objectives. 4 P's: Product, Price, Promotion, Place.
Product differentiation
The process of developing the characteristics of a new product or modifying the characteristics of an existing product so that the product is perceived as unique to some segment of the market, or is perceived by that segment as having greater utility or greater value than existing product…
Market segmentation
Groups of buyers with similar utility profiles.
Merchandising
A firm's choice of what segments it targets likely affect product attributes, pricing, promotion, distribution, and store location, design and "feel."
Competition
Occurs when parties compete for the same dollar, but with generally non-substitutable products.
Form competition
Occurs when the options are substitutable in the most general sense. Example: you need transportation. Car, motorcycle, bicycle, are all substitutable in the general sense that they provide a means of transportation, but none of these producers are in the same industry.
Industry competition
Occurs when the options are from the same industry but not head-to-head substitutes.
Brand competition
a form of head-to-head competition, which occurs when options have strong brand identification.
Price competition
Occurs when all products are generic or otherwise substitutable.
Niches
Extremely narrow segments with few, if any head - to - head competitors.
Brands
Are names, terms, symbols, designs, or some combination of these that identify a particular product, a particular product line, a particular product mix, a particular product producer, or a particular product seller.
Brand names
Are brand identifiers that can be spoken, such as DKNY.
Brand marks
Are brand identifiers that are distinctive symbols or designs. Nike "swoosh."
Trade name
The complete and legal name of the firm.
Family brand
when multiple products share a common identification.
Brand equity
Refers to the total economic value of the brand to the firm.
First mover
The first entrant in a new segment or the first entrant with significant product extension in an existing segment.
Fast second movers
Followers poised to enter quickly if first movers seem to have a "hit."
Slow second movers
enter after market characteristics are well understood.

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